Famous Quotes & Sayings

I used to naively believe that heavily regulated industries - airlines, insurance, etc. - would show above-average rates of return due to barriers to entry and, therefore, reduced competition. Clearly that is not the case.

Jackie Stewart

We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.

We typically don't install median barriers on a section of road with a 45 mph speed limit like this, in an urban area. So, this is a pretty unusual project.

You become an explainer of certain things. You begin to lower barriers of ignorance for people who were genuinely curious.

Dick Cheney

Tom Daschle, unfortunately, has decided, I think in this case, to be more of an obstructionist, ... Philosophical differences are fine. What we're seeing, though, unfortunately, is that efforts are being made here to artificially erect barriers to Senate action.

E. B. White

We changed the name because of the mission of our church to reach out to people who are un-churched, those who are far away from God. Sometimes denominational names can raise barriers for people. So many people here were not raised in the cultural South, and they have pretty stereotypical ideas about what Baptists are like.

We are trying to identify the barriers to solving the shortage of health care workers and to come up with some proposed solutions. We would like to be collectively responsible for providing more and better-trained health care professionals for the region.

Committee for the Task Force will be formed within next 15 days and accordingly start working for preparing a detailed report, comprising barriers and prospects of business between India and Bangladesh.

Exchanges generally have proven to be much more profitable than initially thought. They have monopolistic characteristics, which means there are very high barriers to entry, and that's a businessman's dream.

I don't want to call that a myth, but I think we are starting to knock down some of those barriers that students used to say, 'Knoxville is not a friendly place to be,'

Geena Davis

I love to see those barriers broken. What I'm really hoping is that we can get break the barriers and then get past it to the point that its really not shocking news.

If you just look at state policy, you're not looking at the whole picture. As we've heard from many of our members, you can have a great state policy that can't be implemented, or finds barriers at the local level.

It is the program's intent to remove any barriers that would prevent them from getting a job, paying taxes and abstaining from illegal behavior. Before, it didn't take a genius to figure out it wouldn't be long before they'd go back to stealing, selling drugs, whatever it took to make a living.

It's a challenging environment, very competitive low barriers to entry. For them to get the first one successful or profitable in six months is certainly a commendable feat.

It is putting up some serious barriers to the poor.

Vaclav Havel

It is the beginning of the worst moment. All of the flood barriers are at their maximum level.

Matt Anderson

It's quite striking to see a system where there are no barriers to access. You really have the feeling that the public health authorities want the people in Cuba to be healthy.

In the current landscape, many industry players are going after a slice of the potential mobile e-mail market. Nokia is going after the full 650 million corporate e-mail inboxes. We want to knock down the barriers to mobilizing the entire corporate e-mail market.

In effect, online brokerage today is where e-retail was five years ago. Until the industry figures out how to overcome the barriers to moving online, the online brokerage category will struggle to increase satisfaction of its customers.

Gwen Ifill

I'm happy to break down barriers and be a role model, but I don't want that to be the only thing people talk about. At some point, you have to move past it... . I try not to play into it. I've had this job for a while.

Cities are going to have to break down the barriers and open up the lines of communication, and I think we are all kind of at that point.

Clutter causes stress, and clutter is one of the main barriers of productivity.

Paul Wolfowitz

calls for dismantling trade barriers and ending agriculture subsidies that hurt small farmers and the private sector.

Richard Jenkins

Canadians continue to embrace e-commerce and the convenience that it offers, but there remain a few barriers for consumers to shift more of their buying to retail websites.

Because of language barriers and their vulnerable status under immigration laws, these workers may be the most exploited in the nation.

Georges Simenon

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

The landscape is different now. There are still a lot of barriers but the racial inequality is not as clear cut.

The last thing we want to do is impose our world view, ... But we help them to think through new, creative ways to overcome geographic or bureaucratic barriers to care.

The only walls and barriers that were present were the ones that they both climbed together.

While habits tend to be stable over time, barriers to change in the category are actually very low. It takes very little to get people to try a new restaurant or new food, particularly when prompted by social influences. Likewise, it takes very little for them to reject foods or outlets because of health concerns.

With our robust economy, American workers are finally seeing some improvement in the health benefits they receive. But low-wage employees still face enormous barriers to getting health insurance.

With our focus on upscale, full-service brands in major urban markets, we benefited fully from the continuing growth in transient business demand and the increased competitive strength of our portfolio. We are encouraged that the development pipeline remains conservative, especially in urban markets, where barriers to new competition are the highest.

Tony Wilson

The telecommunications sector is highly dependent upon the regulatory environment and technological change, to the extent that barriers to entry and level of competition could change substantially with change on either of these fronts.